Bug 24474

Summary:	can't use driver disk in LS-120 drive
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Sean Dilda <agrajag>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Florence Gold
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Last Closed:	2001-01-28 22:06:44 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Sean Dilda 2001-01-21 02:26:26 UTC

When trying to use a driver disk on a machine with an LS-120 drive and no
normal floppy, anaconda fails to mount the driver disk.

The last thing tty3 reports is:
* trying to mount device /tmp/fd0

It looks like this is mainly a problem of anaconda looking in the wrong
place for the driver disk, its looking at fd0 when it should (in my case)
be trying to mount hdc

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-21 03:40:28 UTC

Does your machine have any floppy drive at all, or even a floppy
controller?

Comment 2 Sean Dilda 2001-01-21 07:50:47 UTC

The machine does have a floppy controller built into the motherboard, but there
is no drive attached to it.  The LS-120 is the only drive on the machine that
can actually take a floppy disk.

Comment 3 Sean Dilda 2001-01-22 00:25:46 UTC

More Information:

When booting a bootnet floppy with 'linux dd' , tty3 shows
* probing for ide floppies
* no ide floppy devices found

dmesg after booting the 2.4.0-0.43.12spm kernel reports:
hdc: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive

These are from the same machine with no hardware changes, removing the floppy
and turning it off then back on.

lspci -v for the ide controller:
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80
[Master])
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
	I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

Comment 4 Glen Foster 2001-01-22 17:41:26 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Gold release

Comment 5 Brent Fox 2001-01-28 22:06:40 UTC

This is fixed in the latest internal builds.  I have a test machine that has an
LS-120 and no floppy.  You have to completely disable the floppy controller in
the bios, though.  Otherwise, the kernel thinks there is still a floppy drive
there.
Brock, please verify that this works now.  I have a test machine that you can
use.